LDA seals 10 marriage halls

Staff of Commercialization Directorate Town Planning Wing of LDA sealed 10 marriage halls along Ferozpur Road on Saturday. These marriage halls had been constructed in contravention of building bye-laws.
The minimum plot size required for constructing a marriage hall was four kanals and two kanals of land had to be left vacant for parking vehicles. None of these marriage halls had fulfilled these conditions. The owners had illegally set up these ventures after getting approved plans for constructing residences or office buildings at site.
The sealed marriage halls included Taj Mehal, Prince Hall, New Prince, Challet Marriage Hall, Sorraj Marriage Hall, Tariq Lawn, Shahid Marriage, Naqshbandi Hall, Star Gate and Dewani Akbari.
Meanwhile, during its operation against illegal housing schemes as well as unlawful constructions in new housing scheme LDA City, staff of Town Planning Wing of LDA demolished boundary walls of Madina View Society, an illegal housing scheme, at the boundary of LDA City, foundations of two buildings, a security check post and security gate of scheme. Another building was also demolished which was being built along the newly constructed access road to the scheme from Ferozepur Road.
Moreover, Staff of Commercialization Directorate Town Planning Wing of LDA sealed 11 residential properties in Johar Town, Wapda Town, Quaid-e-Azam Town and New garden Town on Saturday which had been illegally used for commercial purposes without getting permission and depositing commercialization fee.